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Install Firefox 3.5 in BT4 pre-final

Community,

due to the fact that BT4 pre-final is based on Intrepid, it's quite a challenge to install FF 3.5 as it's not at all available via apt-get. There's a rather comfortable python-script called "Ubuntuzilla" available though that automates the process by downloading FF 3.5 directly from Mozilla, put FF 3.0 aside and is even able to revert the whole process with a single command. Furthermore "Ubuntuzilla" introduces a cron job that notifies you of updates on FF 3.5. So, let's get started:

1st Step: Download the "Ubuntuzilla" installer from Sourceforge and install it utilizing dpkg and apt-get to resolve dependencies (ignore the warnings while running dpkg)

works a treat but the version i downloaded is in a language i dont understand and I dont have a clue how to change it back to english.

When you are prompted to this...

Please choose the localization (language) for Firefox. Enter the number of your choice from the list below. [If you do not see a list of localizations, please check the help section of our website at hxxp://ubuntuzilla.sourceforge.net/ for steps you can take to resolve this problem.]

install firefox 3.5

The 3.5 release includes several Web standards improvements. It's based on the updated 1.9.1 Gecko layout engine which includes speculative parsing to render (draw) content even faster. Support for new web technologies, such as HTML5 video and audio elements, JavaScript query selectors and downloadable fonts, have also been added. The HTML 5 (HyperText Markup Language Version 5) <video> and <audio> tags allow for the embedding of arbitrary video and audio formats. Firefox includes support for several royalty-free codecs, like Ogg Vorbis, Theora, WAV and others. Support for proprietary formats including patented technology, such as QuickTime and MPEG-4, will be optional.

do you know if the ubuntuzilla .deb package required for the cron job, or can i delete this one after the initial install?

EDIT: I guess I'm wondering the same as goldhedge

One way to determine if the folders are needed would be to rename them and see if everything still functions as before, if not then they would be needed.
If all seems ok then you could move them to /tmp and if things are still ok then again you could delete them.
If anything would later be needed a reinstall would most likely fix it.